Sunday, October 28, 2007

28th October 2007: Who's made a mark this week?

Tom Christopher PSA of Iowa who according to the Pastel Talk Forum of Wet Canvas has apparently 'unofficially' won 4th place in the landscape section of the Pastel 100. Check out his very impressive pastel artwork here. Formal announcement of decisions will be notified to prizewinners by 31 January 2008 and all the pieces will be featured in the April edition of Pastel Journal. You can see more of his stunning pastel portrayals of the Iowa Greenbelt here. I do love artists who can do really convincing trees in all seasons.

The Big Drawing Book Review

My reviews of drawing books got disrupted this week however you can find more reviews of drawing books below. My latest acquisition (which will be reviewed in due course) is "The Tao of Sketching" - it's a complete guide to Chinese sketching techniques!

You can get a complete index to both the artists and subjects covered by various editions of the Pastel Journal in the last year if you visit their website. The index is available as a pdf document. I hope this really useful document gets developed into an interactive and online version at some stage.

Art Blogs

Bartlett Pear (sold)6" x 6", oil on panelcopyright Abbey Ryan

The number of artists still participating in the daily painting movement seem to have dropped however, there's still both space and market share available to those with talent who are keen to pick up the baton (or maybe that should be 'brush'?).

Abbey Ryantells me she is a long-time reader of this blog and that she has just started a new Daily Painting Blog called Ryan Studio. I took a peek at her work and although it's not yet developed a consistent Ryan perspective or motif for these new small works (in contrast to the strong direction evident in her studio work) it looks very promising to me and seems to be attracting interest on e-bay. You can see Abbey's larger studio work here.

Many of you will remember me talking about how Notan influenced Georgia O'Keefe's paintings. Linda Blondheim has been exploring the concept in her plein air painting of late and you can see the results on her Linda Blondheim Art Notes blog.

Karin Jurick (A Painting Today) is warning people about a scam artist who is asking people if they'd like to accept a Second Chance Offer. Do what Karin has done here and alert people if you think anything is bogus or untoward.

Art - education and development

Alyson Stanfield (ArtBizBlog) has an excellent post about 5 ways to be a better artist - in summary: Practice / Experiment / Listen to the critics / Read / Look at a lot of art. I totally endorse everything she says and wish I'd written that post!

Art exhibitions

Alyson Stanfield also has a very useful and practical post with recommendations about what to do about labels for an art exhibition - Labels for your art installation

The Henry Moore exhibition at Kew Gardens is outstanding and also has an excellent website. It makes me wonder why the Gardens haven't been used more for exhibitions of sculpture. I wonder if the work of someone like Andy Goldsworthy would fit into a more cultivated environment? I also saw something at Kew Gardens of great interest to botanical artists which I'll be writing about soon.

Which means I'm now on Facebook! Actually I had already dipped a toe in Facebook but I hadn't really explored it at all - but I now have a reason to go there and it's lovely to see so many other familiar faces who've all apparently had the same idea! I'm still sorting my way through how it all works - and got mightily distracted doing my map! I'm beginning to include upcoming events. However I think I'm going to be keeping the 'friends' bit just for people who I 'know' through interaction in forums/blogs/groups on Google and Yahoo (plus my other offline 'face to face' contacts) for the time being.

Art in Miniature

Following my visit to and post about the exhibition of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters,Sculpters and Gravers, at the mall Galleries in London, Gayle Mason (Fur in the Paint) has been inspired to start a miniature on ivorine. You can see progress to date and links to where she gets her supplies here. I went to see the exhibition again on Wednesday and it's still a story of record sales and a very successful exhibition. Nicole Caulfield (Art Journal) is also busy preparing some miniature art for an exhibition. Given the interest shown in miniature art I'm hoping to write more about it soon.

Art supplies

I had an opportunity to try an Optivisor at the UKCPS AGM when Ann Massey brought hers along to show us. This is an optical aid which is invaluable for people doing very fine detail and/or miniature art. However it looks a bit odd when on - see a demonstratation here. There are a variety of suppliers. Gayle Mason (see above) has just got one and I'm hoping she's going to be commenting on its use on her blog very soon!

Finally, for anybody who missed the earlier message, I'd very much like to thank all those who offered their support earlier in the week which helped get me through a very worrying time. I'm going to be preoccupied visiting with my sister who's on a flying visit and 'the patient' for the next few days - so I'll see you all later in the week.

Re: your drawing books reviews. I can't possibly tackle ALL of your content so you may have mentioned/reviewed/referred to this already, and you may only be looking at technique books HOWEVER, I do recommend you look at the Curtis O. Baer collections - Landscape Drawings and 17th c. Dutch Landscape Drawings. They're both out of print but the Landscape Drawings is a magnificent collection with very good plates and if you don't own or haven't seen it already, I think that you might enjoy it very much. There's a link in my Landscape into Art sidebar for convenience and no, I'm not asking you to review what I'm doing, blogroll me or anything else. Pure commentary and comaraderie. Cheers.

Overview: 175 drawings came from a private Atlanta collection, begun in Germany in the 1940s. Andrew Robison was the coordinator at the Gallery. The exhibition was organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

The exhibition had a catalogue but it's unclear whether this is still available.

I checked Amazon and it appears the book you mention is out of print. Amazon only lists it in relation to other booksellers.

Too bad I never got the Atelier book reviewed before the end of October. Nonetheless, I will do one soon, as it has turned into a great read and set of lessons.Thanks, Katherine, for getting us all going on drawing, in general, and this month of book reviews.Short review of Classic Drawing Atelier? 4 pencils, as it is a great illumination of what motivates the modern serious art student of realism, but tries to require something like a fealty to a set of beliefs about art.

A super comprehensive affair, Katherine Tyrrell’s blog is a go-to for punters and artists alike. Making a Mark includes useful annual itineraries of major UK art exhibitions (though the bulk are London-based) as well as a meticulous calendar of competitions for artists to enter. Expect in-depth news, analysis and a focus on fostering new talentCreativeTourist - Top Art Blogs UK 2016

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